Dr. Ruth M Benca MD PHD
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
6001 Research Park Blvd Madison WI, 53719Rating
4/5
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Dr. Ruth Benca is a psychiatrist practicing in Madison, WI. Dr. Benca is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Benca diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Benca may treat patients through a variety of methods including medications, psychotherapy or talk therapy, psychosocial interventions and more, depending on each individual case. Different medications that a psychiatrist might prescribe include antidepressants, antipsychotic mediations, mood stabilizers, stimulants, sedatives and hypnotics. Dr. Benca treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Univ of Chicago, Pritzker Sch of Med, Chicago Il 1981
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Sleep Medicine
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Thalamic metabolic rate predicts EEG alpha power in healthy control subjects but not in depressed patients.
- The pretectum mediates rapid eye movement sleep regulation by light.
- Anterior cingulate activity as a predictor of degree of treatment response in major depression: evidence from brain electrical tomography analysis.
- REM sleep in response to light and dark in congenic albino and pigmented F344 rats.
- Consequences of insomnia and its therapies.
- Age-associated changes in the serotonergic system in rat superior colliculus and pretectum.
- Brain electrical tomography in depression: the importance of symptom severity, anxiety, and melancholic features.
- Fos immunoreactivity in rat subcortical visual shell in response to illuminance changes.
- Sleep and psychiatric disorders. A meta-analysis.
- Functional but not structural subgenual prefrontal cortex abnormalities in melancholia.
- Special considerations in insomnia diagnosis and management: depressed, elderly, and chronic pain populations.
- Panel discussion: changing how we think about insomnia.
- Comparison of hypocretin/orexin and melanin-concentrating hormone neurons and
- Regulation of sleep and arousal: introduction to part VII.
- Migratory sleeplessness in the white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii).
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